Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our assets are run to (match) the Lehman Bros. Long Liabilities Index. The new bonds will be part of the index. We will have to buy them at some point.

Our borrowing capacity has been completely exhausted. We have no more assets to pledge.

States are required to return money and other assets obtained through corruption to the country from which they were stolen.

Splitting up the assets makes infinite sense, not only from a financial perspective but from an operating perspective or competitive perspective.. No one wants market dominance to take place. The shipping community certainly doesn't want it, even the competing railroads out West don't want it.

Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negative returns in the double digits are not uncommon.

It is a surprise in timing. People were expecting a restructuring of the assets some time before the end of the year.

It is a serious issue and an unusual one. There will be a permanent need for more rail, truck and barge assets to move fuel around.

Just because your assets are going up doesn't mean your net worth is going up.

Just as they hold fixed income assets to diversify the risk of stocks, participants should hold Roth savings to diversify the risks associated with pre-tax savings.

Japanese individual investors continue to shun risk, and the notion of putting money into foreign assets is repugnant.

I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled 'Soft Apocalypse,' and that's definitely the sort I'm best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I'm ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food.

David Stern

I think Dave has a very keen understanding of assets and their values. I understood him (buying the Blues) as a sign of great confidence he had in the new NHL model and ... that he thought he would be able to buy the team and profit on it. And I have no doubt that he will.

Mitt Romney

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

Michael Bennett

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

I think we have a tremendous number of assets in the region, and getting those assets marketed to the right people is going to be key to how the region grows, and how fast it grows.

It has always been clear that The Washington Post is a company that is set up for the purpose of protecting the long-term interests of its assets and held together as a holding company.

Michael Smith

It is likely that the carrying value of these assets is below the current market value.

Rio wants assets on a world class basis, and the sale is a reflection of the quality and scale of assets it wants. It has a track record of selling assets and getting good prices at the top of the market.

Refiners are very popular on Wall Street now. If you bought refining (capacity) before the summer of 2005, you suddenly got one of the hottest assets on Wall Street.

Real might need to look for a merger partner and I think the assets are valuable.

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

John Ford

Part of the reason we're doing this is that we like both the assets and the people.

Jacques Chirac

Our objective is simple: to give Europe back its dynamism, ... It has all the assets to be at front of the global economy. But, faced with international competition, there is urgency.

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

I believe that with my background, the assets that I bring to the table through my life experiences are very valuable to the town. I think having someone of my qualifications is important for a council to have whether it's me of someone with a background of mine.

Cerberus is traditionally a long-term investor. What they do is look for undervalued assets that they can acquire, then turn around and help them grow.

Budapest is right in line with our international strategy, and we have won it at a fair price, reflecting the true value to BAA of the assets involved, rather than any wider strategic benefits.

Building assets is very, very challenging unless you have a good story to tell. There are a lot of funds out there with mediocre stories to tell.

Underperforming assets are not going to work in the marketplace. Spin-offs used to be desirable. Now it looks like companies want to give to the investing public divisions that they can't do anything with.

We look forward to building Fun's businesses by combining its leadership in online skill games with Liberty's media assets and expertise in using video to build popular brands and services.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

I think the one thing people are missing is the one thing that is attracting Hilton: the hotel operations. They could be setting up a sale of core assets in the Sheraton brand,

There are still an awful lot of assets that have been evaporated but not written down. People are looking for a quarter with bad news so they can write it all off at once. Asset quality is lower than it has ever been.